Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment tells of one of the most renowned criminal cases in world literature: the student Raskolnikov kills a pawnbroker in an almost perfect crime, burying her stolen money in a garden without ever retrieving it himself. Everything about the deed is both cruel and base, but also motivated by grand ideals. But the stolen money does not change the life of the young man. His crime plunges him into confusion and loneliness.

In the context of the performance, the Salzburg Center for Film Culture DAS KINO will screen movie version of the novel or productions it inpsired, including movies by Josef von Sternberg, Andrzej Wajda, Aki Kaurismäki, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Stefan Georg Troller, Clint Eastwood, Sasha Snow and Kim Ki Duk.